Why --git is not default in qrefresh?

[Patrick Mézard]

Marcin Kasperski a écrit :
 > Well, I just recently discovered, that
 >
 >       hg qrefresh --git
 >
 > is able to save info about file permission changes, copies/renames
 > etc.
 >
 > Simple question: why it is not default?

Because while being powerful, git patch format is not mainstream. I do 
not know any Windows implementation except for cygwin. mpatch 
availability may change these considerations though.

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Patrick Mézard